addictive
Example Sentences
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Lawmakers in both parties have also moved to protect minors from social media’s harms, including by restricting addictive algorithms and requiring age verification.
I see it as a deeply intimate, devastating, life-affirming, life-depleting, psychotic, meditative, euphoric, addictive struggle of building something where before there was nothing.
From Los Angeles Times
In Portland, the county seat of Multnomah County, police this year have investigated more than 130 overdose deaths — many of them fueled by fentanyl, a highly addictive and potentially lethal drug.
From Seattle Times
Baroness Kidron also criticised other harmful design choices such as the "many hundreds of small reward loops that make up a doomscroll or make a game addictive".
From BBC
Morphine, the naturally-occurring painkiller widely used in hospitals, is Schedule 2, because although it can be as addictive and deadly as heroin, it's seen as having some medical value under a doctor's guidance.
From Salon
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